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Linear Algebra is a continuous form of mathematics and it is applied throughout science and engineering because it allows you to model natural phenomena and to compute them efficiently. Because it is a form of continuous and not discrete mathematics, a lot of computer scientists don't have a lot of experience with it. Linear Algebra is also central to almost all areas of mathematics like geometry and functional analysis. Its concepts are a crucial prerequisite for understanding the theory behind Machine Learning, especially if you are working with Deep Learning Algorithms. You don't need to understand Linear Algebra before you get started with Machine Learning but at some point, you want to gain a better intuition for how the different machine learning algorithms really work under the hood.

Artificial Intelligence involves incorporating features into machines that mimic human intelligence and cognitive attributes like self-learning, visual perception, speech recognition, logical problem solving, and decision making. The Artificial Intelligence field aims to solve human intelligence and put its features in software, robots, and machines in general for increased efficiency in performing tasks that exceed common mathematical boundaries and human capacities. It involves problem-solving skills and pattern recognition from abstract audio-visual or input data, deep learning for automatic error perfection that is'self-learning', prediction capabilities based on present datasets, and accurate simulation from raw data to name a few.

Police departments are increasingly turning to predictive analytics to help them fight crime, and the early returns are positive, with double-digit drops in crime rates reported in many cities. According to big data analytics experts, police departments could spend their time and money more effectively by giving deep learning algorithms a role in the dispatch room. There are many factors that go into crime and crime rates. Despite what you may hear on the TV news, crime rates are down substantially from their peak in the early 1990s, a trend that's been attributed to everything from President Clinton's 1994 Violent Crime Control Act and the prison-building boom to a ban on lead-based paint and even Roe V. Wade. While crime rates are down, there is still more crime in the U.S. than other industrialized countries.

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are deep neural net architectures comprised of two nets, pitting one against the other (thus the "adversarial"). GANs were introduced in a paper by Ian Goodfellow and other researchers at the University of Montreal, including Yoshua Bengio, in 2014. Referring to GANs, Facebook's AI research director Yann LeCun called adversarial training "the most interesting idea in the last 10 years in ML." GANs' potential is huge, because they can learn to mimic any distribution of data. That is, GANs can be taught to create worlds eerily similar to our own in any domain: images, music, speech, prose. They are robot artists in a sense, and their output is impressive – poignant even.

Two words that are spoken in every leadership and board meeting around the world right now are "machine learning". Technology buzzwords seem to monopolize these meetings. Who could forget: digital, big data, internet of things (IoT), mobility, …-as-a-service, security, the cloud and the recent favorite, blockchain? Now, machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and numerous other technological terms that describe the artificial intelligence space have become this year's buzzwords. I've been in meetings with other executives where most people, including me, can't make heads or tails of what people are talking about when this subject comes up.

The 10th edition of the $9.71-billion NVIDIA Corporation's annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2018) for GPU developers opened on Tuesday to an audience of 8,500 where its Founder, President and CEO, Jensen Huang unveiled a series of advances to its deep learning computing platform. For over two hours, Huang took the audience through some "amazing graphics, amazing science, amazing AI and amazing robots." Introducing NVIDIA RTX technology that runs on a Quadro GV100 processor, he said: "This technology is the most important advance in computer graphics in 15 years as we can now bring real-time ray tracing to the market. Virtually everyone is adopting it." Elaborating on its relevance, he said, the gaming industry that makes 400 games a year, uses ray-tracing to render entire games in advance.

An AI startup including original pioneers from DeepMind – the generalised artificial intelligence company acquired by Google for around $500 million – has roared out of stealth with a pledge to revolutionise the digital economy. Its starting premise is that today's digital economy is disconnected, with assets such as hotel rooms and cars drastically under-utilised and systems such as transport and energy networks poorly optimised. The underlying'smart ledger' contains several world first innovations including built-in AI, a new Useful Proof of Work consensus mechanism and a unique data structure that combines blockchain and Directed Acyclic Graph architecture to achieve the performance and scalability necessary to support millions of agents transacting together. CTO Toby Simpson explains: "Autonomous Economic Agents are set to revolutionise commerce. They're digital entities that can transact independently of human intervention and can represent people, machines or themselves. "Imagine a world that connects anything to anything and everything to everything, where data, services and information get up on their own two feet and deliver themselves with incredible precision.

One of the longest-running challenges in the logistics industry is finding the shortest routes. First articulated in the 1930s, the "traveling salesman problem" seeks to deduce the shortest route connecting a group of cities to ensure optimal use of time and resources. Karim Beguir, co-founder and CEO of London-based AI startup InstaDeep, told GPU Technology Conference attendees this week that GPU-powered deep learning and reinforcement learning may have the answer. Previous efforts to address the traveling salesman problem include optimization solvers, heuristics and Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithms. But, according to Beguir, these approaches all suffer from the same shortcoming: They don't learn.

A pair of researchers from Columbia University recently built a self-replicating AI system. Instead of painstakingly creating the layers of a neural network and guiding it's development as it becomes more advanced – they've automated the process. The researchers, Oscar Chang and Hod Lipson, published their fascinating paper titled "Neural Network Quine" earlier this month, and with it a novel new method for "growing" a neural network. Chang told The Register about the team's reasoning behind creating an AI that evolves itself: The primary motivation here is that AI agents are powered by deep learning, and a self-replication mechanism allows for Darwinian natural selection to occur, so a population of AI agents can improve themselves simply through natural selection – just like in nature – if there was a self-replication mechanism for neural networks. The method Lipson and Chang use relies on natural selection techniques by using one of AI's greatest strengths: predicting patterns.